Land Use Change from Non-urban to Urban Areas: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities II
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 15138
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Interests: geographical information systems; remote sensing; regional development
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Interests: radar meteorology; climate variability, extremes and trends; precipitation: dynamics and hydrological impact; atmospheric modeling & remote sensing; land surface-atmosphere interactions; solar and eolic energy potential; mountain ecosystems; tropics and arid environments; South America
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Now population growth is one of the most critical factors affecting our planet, and it is the cause of a growing demand for resources. To solve this demand, humans are constantly modifying the environment, leading to changes in the use and coverage of the land, where rural lands become urban; these processes occur in very short periods of time.
These rapid processes and changes generally do not have adequate planning or a long-term vision, which ends up undermining the integrity of urban areas, human beings and the environment. The change of land use from non-urban to urban areas brings several types of problems related to ecosystem services, basic services, water supply, healthy spaces, and food provision for the population, among others. The solutions for the mentioned problems should be addressed from the beginning, requiring adequate planning to guarantee sustainable and resilient territories.
Additionally, these problems related to the change from non-urban to urban areas and its iterations need to be analyzed in a multidisciplinary way, where these new challenges become opportunities to achieve the sustainable development of resilient territories. For this Special Issue we welcome studies related to land-use change and their non-urban and urban relationships at all spatiotemporal scales. That includes:
- Land use planning schemes for progressive urban expansion;
- Regulatory strategies;
- Planning for a sustainable future;
- Geospatial-based decision support systems (DSSs);
- Spatio-temporal dynamics, socio-economic implications, water supply problems and deforestation land degradation (e.g., increase of imperviousness surfaces) produced by urban expansion and their resource requirements. Studies including the exploitation of low/high-level remote sensing imageries are also welcomed.
Dr. Víctor Hugo González-Jaramillo
Dr. Ruetger Rollenbeck
Guest Editors
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